Andy Green
JCB DIESELMAX Driver
Andy Green went to Oxford on an RAF Scholarship and graduated with First Class Honours in mathematics before undertaking full-time flight training with the RAF.
He was selected to fly Phantoms, spent five years on F4s and moved to the Tornado F3 for two more years before being posted to Farnborough with the rank of Squadron Leader.
He hit world headlines after being selected in 1994 to drive the ThrustSSC land speed record car, with which he became the first and only man ever to drive at supersonic speeds when he averaged 763.035 mph on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada on 15 October 1997.
Following that remarkable British triumph he returned to fly Tornados again as Flight Commander, had a one-year spell at staff college in Australia, and following promotion to Wing Commander spent two years in the Permanent Joint HQ at Northwood running operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is now OC Operations Wing at RAF Wittering, running the airfield and all other station operations at the 'Home of the Harrier', and also Deputy Station Commander.
An enthusiastic sportsman having flown and rowed at college and university, he is captain of the RAF Cresta team, flies a Pitts Special at weekends, goes skydiving with girlfriend Sophy and is skipper for sailing holidays.